Coding culture at companies - James Ross

James is the Chief Technology Officer Asia-Pacific at SEEK, the massive online job board. This episode was recorded on 5 June 2020 Hastened digitisation thanks to Covid-19 means the decisions CTOs make affect how everyone will work. Behind that is corporate coding culture, expected to become mor…

Rumour tracking covid-19 - Irene Scott

This stuff is rife during the pandemic. And not just Bill Gates, 5G, bleach or hydroxychloroquine.  Irene, among other things, shares a rumour that started in the Philippines that spiked the price of eggs. No one wants that. Her humanitarian experience in information is fascinating. Currently tra…

Community Australian Football - Andy Bellairs

Footy is the thing to do for thousands of suburbs and towns around Australia. There's often more happening off the field as teams of volunteers administer the club, the sport and the weekly social event that rules the Australian winter. Correction: The longest trip in the Golden Rivers Football N…

Food supply in the UK - Prof Tom MacMillan

Food supply chains are catching up to covid eating habits in the UK. What might become obselete because of covid-19? Prof MacMillan says "the notion that self sufficiency is irrelevant to how secure food supply is... as a country or a region that we don't need to grow much of our own food in orde…

Creative and unexpected encounters - Esther Anatolitis

Bumping into someone or something/s is not what it used to be, or will be in the future. "One of the first things that will happen is that we're going to surprise ourselves by being surprised, you know, we're going to have that experience of going, 'Oh, God. That's, that's what I was missing'" - E…

Blackjack and casinos - Daniel Kozijevic

Is card counting and gaming in casinos going to be different after Covid-19? Sure is. Daniel learned card counting in his later years at university around 2003 and has been politely asked to leave, restricted and known to casinos he's diligently played blackjack in. One takeaway for anyone that …

Fentanyl - Ben Westhoff

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's getting cut with traditional illicit drugs like MDMA, herion and cocaine. It's killed Prince, Tom Petty and thousands of other Americans, then more around the world. The precursers that make fentanyl mostly come from China, with Mexican drug cartels buying th…

Stand-up comedy - Sami Shah

Sitting in a crowded room with strangers all laughing about something said on stage? Not likely at the moment, and after Covid-19 possibly not likely then either. For a bit. So we asked Melbourne-based comedian Sami Shah how he sees stand-up comedy in the post pandemic world.   Links from the e…

Virtual and Augmented Reality - Dr Jamie Cohen

"Post-pandemic I do believe we'll have much more of an appreciation for the way we communicate visually" - Jamie Cohen, Cultural and Media Studies PhD Virtual reality and now augmented reality have had a few goes at mainstream relevance beyond novelty. Most recently with Oculus Rift, Playstation'…

Film & TV production - Dr Lauren Rosewarne

"This is a very, very strange world event with film and TV is largely not being produced at this time," Dr Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne Thought that film and TV creators are holed up and scribbling the next pandemic blockbuster? Perhaps not.   ARTICLE: COVID-19, the movie? Don’t hol…